Quote Originally Posted by GFX707
You get branded a thief for that these days? I remember the days when me and my friends used to take stuff like Wing Commander 2 around to each others houses and share all the stuff we bought. I bet at least CA employee has done that too. It's a TAD harsh to call someone a thief for that....I bought RTW from ebay....does that make me a thief?
If the license was for a single machine at a time and you loaded the game onto multiple machines without deleting it off previous machines then you would be breaching your licensing agreement.

Now you wonder why a lot of game design companies have gone and why games are costing so much more. It is only partially true to blame it on piracy. It is the large companies that produce the games (not design them) and the selling points that are making the money from the markups. The design companies are not getting a large enough slice of the retail price. Markups are for the explicit cost of advertising, production and retail space. They use piracy as an implicit cost and excuse for the markups.